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A. A. LINDSAY, M. D. 


A wonderful and coinprehensiye language re- 
sides in the hands of each individual. The code 
of symbols consists in the forms, measurements, 
texture of structures, high and low places, dis- 
tances in spaces, color and markings of the nails 
and items such as flexibility of joints, etc., besides 
the multitude of lines, each one with its distinct 
meaning. 

Sometimes there are stars, islands, squares or 
fans in the palms; these, also tints and colors of 
the various structures may be significant of especial 
and peculiar experiences also indicate the form of 
disease to which one is disposed when possessing 
the hand marking. 

The more comprehensive the technic of a sub- 
ject the further the student may enter into its 
details and apply the teachings ; our author has so 
written her book that a casual reader will find 
intense instruction for she gives facts and con- 
clusions ; the one who wishes to be a student of the 
Psychology of the Hand will disclose the author’s 
elaborate hand language and any such student can 
soon learn to think in the correct terms. 

I am confident that the average investigator 
will be amazed, as was I, at disclosing the registra- 
tions which the Builder within has made as an 
open book in the hand. We have enough wonders 
in this book to startle one yet the author has com- 
mitted to these writings only a few examples in her 
possession; with all advancement she has made 
although far transcending any other writer’s scien- 


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tific exhibitions, she confesses she is only on the 
way. 

What could measure your interest if you were 
to come upon a book or something with world sym- 
bols in your English telling you much about your 
ancestors and all about — what you have become, 
what you could, therefore should become and de- 
scribe ichat you actually will become? 

Your past, present and future, also your po- 
tencies which you innately possess which you 
should fulfill, all of these are written in your two 
hands and with the present mastery of the language 
there is a great degree of correct reading possible. 

The physician endeavors to learn the distinctive 
features of the regions of the body, usually looking 
for symptoms of disease or evidences of pre-dis- 
position to disorders. While he includes markings 
of hands, especially the nails, he considers the form 
of trunk and its various measurements, the eyes 
and their expression and seeks a general informa- 
tion from each region. Then the specialist in dis- 
ease makes a thorough study through sight and 
feel so as to diagnose the case. So our profession 
has acknowledged the psychology of the physiology 
and anatomy of each region of the body. 

With the exception of the hands no region or 
portion of the body has had an elaborate collation 
of data through permitting the markings to define 
themselves in thousands of instances, thus forming 
a language. Besides the author of this book is 
convinced that since the hand is incessantly carry- 
ing out the offices of mind and emotions it has been 
more impressed in detail markings. This con- 
clusion does not oppose our teachings that claim 
that the arrangement of all cells as well as their 
states chemically and their modifications are at all 


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times registrations in tlie physical made by the 
sub-conscious phase of mind. 

When I have known the parents and heard from 
them of their diseases and tragedies, their disposi- 
tions and appetites I have used that information as 
a guide in my suggestions to the descendant to 
eradicate from his soul the pictures after which he 
probably would build. A mother came to me in 
great grief over the sudden abandonment of his 
family by the husband. He had made no explana- 
tion of why nor where he went. The wife declared 
that her grief was not on her own account primar- 
ily but because the children would have the same 
sad life she had grown up under for her father 
had also left his family suddenly and forever. 

The mother referred to had in her hand the im- 
pression of her father abandoning her home and 
also the mark of prophecy that her husband would 
abandon her. Each of her children had the record 
in prophecy which had been fulfilled a few weeks 
before this visit to my office. 

In expert reading I have had these significa- 
tions given to me so I could give the suggestions 
which would break up the line of tragedy or trend 
of disease. This mode of prevention is more desir- 
able than to have the images which we disclose 
from the hand, which must be in the soul, begin 
to manifest in the disorder for then we would have 
a picture and a form also to erase and remove. 

The author has given us every essential proof 
that through the hand language one may define 
the innate or spiritual gift— determine that for 
which the individual is best qualified. The reader 
may study the prints and learn the code and find 
out about his own best gifts f also disease trends to 
be erased) or those of his child or others in whom 
he is directly interested. One intending to adopt 


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a child would do well to examine from this stand- 
point. The author shows the alcoholic trend of a 
father and the peculiar elements in the mother 
which markings are in the prints of the right and 
left hands of baby. 

That heredity is transmission of the images is 
firmly proved by the picture and history of the 
man’s hand displaying six fingers. He also had six 
fingers on the other hand and six toes on each foot 
— characteristics of his father as well. There were 
no toes or fingers in the primary cell from which 
he evolved but in the mind of that cell was an 
image calling for such elements. 

The book shows that change of images carried 
to the sub-conscious is followed by the change of 
the lines and other qualities in the hand ; instances 
are given wherein a new life line begins at a time 
when our constructive psychology began to be lived 
by the individual. 

There is an item that we hope will improve with 
the spread of the teachings. The principles set 
forth in the author’s proofs bear witness to the 
presence in the phase of the human that we call 
the Innate — the pictures of the perfect or the ideal 
upon whatsoever subject that touches the in- 
dividual’s life, particularly of that which he should 
express. The improvements we pray for is that an 
awakening of understanding and confidence will 
result in the individual’s ceasing to limit himself 
by his standards. When that occurs the hands 
will show that that which he could express and 
should express is fulfilled, cutting out the lines we 
have found in all hands showing that expression is 
far below the potencies. We often find lines de- 
claring the presence of supreme potencies in a di- 
rection and that same person on his knees inces- 
santly praying for more power. 


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In studying that which the author is placing- 
in. this book I am convinced that any sincere per- 
son will find superb benefits fully compensating for 
all time and effort essential to the mastery of the 
technic or language. She has continued to use the 
names of the factors making up the hand that have 
come down through Greek and Roman Mythology 
— language for the objective is chiefly a matter of 
agreement on terms so understanding of each 
other may become possible. Whether one’s purpose 
is to correct or prevent disease in himself or is 
seeking to disclose his spiritual gift — whether for 
healing or culture he will be justified in mastering 
the language of the hand for therein is an objecti- 
fied guide as real as any guide-post at the dividing 
of the ways. 

City and national governments have been sub- 
stantiating for years the fact that the soul writes 
its individuality in a very small portion of the 
hand — they identify individuals through finger 
prints. The author will not seem extravagant when 
she declares character delineations and vocational 
adaptation as well as inclinations pertaining to 
disease, habit or appetite are dependable published 
in the sum total of the hand identities. 

Psychology of the Hand means : The soul has 
announced through the hand the images possessed 
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N hundreds of prints in the writer’s 
possession, none have the predominance 
of ideality and mentality over the physi- 
cal as shown in the phalanges of these 

The spatulate palm is evenly divided in its 
realms of the mental and physical. 

Every mount is large. The hand is of the very 
finest texture of skin ; the color is ideal. The hand 
is firmly flexible. The nail phalanx, thumb joint is 
firm which indicates in this ultra refined thumb 
that the possessor cannot yield to the viewpoints of 
others and that his ideals must be accepted ; as high 
ideals only are his possession, he is impelled to this 
demand by his innate department of Soul. He 
will use his mind to persuade ; he could never yield 
to use force. The second phalanx of the thumb is 
extremely flexible; it can be pulled at au angle al- 
most touching the wrist. This formation indicates 
that circumstances do not annoy him; he can ad- 
just himself to an environment; he lives so much 
in the mental world that the physical must take 
second consideration. His physical requirements 
are of a simple nature. He would not give his 
mind the annoyance of striving for things. His re- 
finement makes him appreciate beauty and har- 
monious equipment but it must be second to the 
ideal in thought. 

Upon the left hand print, this idealist possesses 
a forked head line. This prophesies that he has a 
mind with a trend either of the ideal imagination 
or that he can apply his mental equipment toward 
the practical world. 

The reader will observe that there is an in- 
clination of a fork formation in the right hand 




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print head-line under the Apollo mount. This head- 
line shows that this individual chose a practical 
trend to express his idealism. The ultra refine- 
ment of the hand shows that only the highest of 
ideals could find expression. 

The mercury finger equals the length of Glad- 
stone’s print given in Cheiro’s book. 

Cheirognomists would assert that this print 
shows a mixed hand. All of the mounts are large, 
are developed which shows that the possessor has 
expressed all of the finest qualities predicated in 
each mount in his mentality as well as in his 
physical structure. 

He expresses in height, his Saturnian promin- 
ence; his broad shoulders indicate the mental or 
soul influence of Jupiter ; his sparkling dark eyes, 
grace of manner and agility, from Apollo and Mer- 
cury impellation. Venus tossed in her dimples 
and attractive sparkle of life. Luna added the 
peculiarly reflective appearance, Mars gave enough 
aggression and courage to lend vitality to all ideals 
and to put strength into the body. His versatility 
of physical and mental is equal. A further analysis 
follows : 


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Pagctjol egg of the 


The hands are the indexes of the subjective and 
objective individual — showing : What he has be- 
come — memory; what he will become — prophecy; 
what he could and should become — the innate po- 
tencies. j 

The individual exhibits himself in his hands 
and this self is preferably termed the soul of the 
man. The soul is omnipotent, is omnipresent, is 
omniscient. 

The soul of the man uses the body, the instru- 
ment to express its potencies and is the organized 
aggregation of minds, intelligences of the cells of 
the human body; the soul controls the body in all 
of its expressions, physical and psychical. 

The character of the thought life is revealed in 
every phase of the human form but the hand, due to 
its intimate association with the imagery depart- 
ment of the mind with its capacity to direct pic- 
tures, has the results of imagery crystallized into 
forms the expressions, constructively and destruc- 
tively ; these designs go to make up the form of the 
hand as well as the tracings upon the inside of the 
hand and the building is done by the soul. 

From an observation of a hand, a cheirogno- 
mist can describe and determine how a man should 
appear in his physical form and character-life as 
can a botanist assign a leaf to its genus and proper 
relationships and portray the formation of its mem- 
berships. 

That the hand is the servant of the mind per- 
forming to chosen pictures of the will, that the pri 
mary generator of motion is the nervous system, 
many cheirognomists and cheiromancists have ac- 
knowledged but that the hand manifests the sub- 


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conscious mind in its innate phase none have con- 
ceived nor have they believed that there was a po- 
tency of that innate to remedy, to neutralize the 
ills so prophetically delineated. If bad prophecies 
were revealed and there were no means of correc- 
tion offered to avert that coming disaster, the 
knowing of the pending evil meant more destruc- 
tion because it had added to its force the sense of 
fear and the unrest of the conscious mind. Again 
if a destructive prognostication were given the un- 
belief in its possible fulfillment caused the indi- 
vidual to ignore and even ridicule the pending 
disaster. 

An informed individual is safe: The soul 
minutely manifests the emotions and discloses the 
potential picture department and has the power to 
neutralize, to build. 

The writers have written upon the subject — the 
nervous system and its effect upon muscles, the cir- 
culation and other phases of the human form but 
every reader lias wanted to know what power con- 
trolled the nervous system. 

The nervous system is the message bearer, the 
order carrier which the cell intelligences or sub- 
conscious phase of mind uses ; it is the instrument, 
active and passive, the psychical phase of the man. 

The relative largeness of the human nervous 
system stands clearly related to the enormous com- 
plexity of human actions. 

The emotions bring blood into the hands and a 
succession of emotions in their paroxysms of vio- 
lence and their quick alternation of calm marks the 
hand. 

Humanity could not believe photography and 
marveled that a film could receive an impression 
and that a large expanse could be brought into a 
three by four picture dimension. 


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Few can believe that the soul can depict the 
emotional life in hieroglyphical characters and 
that these forms and markings can be interpreted 
by an expert hand-reader. 

The hand might be called the human-thermo- 
metrograph which is as reliable in its registrations 
of its subject as is the seismograph which records 
the earth’s shocks and iindnlatory motions of the 
earthquakes which the writer noted when on a visit 
to Lick’s Observatory on Mount Hamilton in Cali- 
fornia. 

The one who has learned the codes of the var- 
ious instruments knows accurately the results of 
figures and tracings which the uninformed observer 
cannot appreciate. However looking at the hand of 
the individual by an expert is as dependable and 
scientific as looking at the thermometer which 
measures the degree of heat or temperature of 
bodies, or in referring to the barometer to learn 
the weight and pressure of the atmosphere. 

To the expert, the shape of the hand and its 
quality of texture reveals the kind of imagery 
which has predominated in the lives of past gener- 
ations and to what extent those images influence 
the mind of the present subject: 

The lines of the hand reveal more minutely the 
details concerning the life and measure the sub- 
ject’s possibility of attaining an individuality. The 
lines are subject to change in a briefer period of 
time. All changes must be made through changed 
images through aspiration and permitting realiza- 
tion through* the innate building the new pictures 
into form. 

The lines reveal the recurrent law of emotions : 
When once an emotional disorder or confusion has 
taken place, the memory of the cells provides the 
possibility of a repetition of the disorder. The in- 


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dividual may change his environment and make 
every objective effort to avoid further distress of a 
similar nature but the old images and the creative 
ability of the soul will build again the second or 
third occasion almost in exact copy of the first 
emotional confusion. This fact is indisputably 
written in hands : History repeats itself. 

The depictings in lines are of a subjective na- 
ture; the head-line is the variable one of the vital 
lines due to the fact that the images indulged in 
determine its character as well as its strength. 

The development of the mentality is not wholly 
caused by environment but since the environment 
requires a certain quality of images and the images 
held in the conscious mind are taken up by the 
subconscious and are built into fact, the mental- 
line therefore is effected in its course upon the 
palm. 

For illustration, note the idealist’s hand 
marked “A.” 

On the left hand print which is not in the book, 
the head-line is forked, the upper prong of the fork 
portrays the innate ability of his mind to deal in 
practical scientific affairs; the other, the lower 
prong of the fork, the innate possibility of living 
images which are required by the art world. 

The subject’s choice decided the career. One 
asks, was his choice dependant upon any item? Is 
there any quality in the hand insignia of a quality 
of mind that will force his decision? 

The writer answers readily yes. The third pha- 
langes of the hands are less in length, showing an 
innate trend to avoid a physical instrument as a 
necessity for his self-soul expression. 

A musician has a great appreciation of a musi- 
cal instrument and these phalanges are never lack- 
ing in the musician. One sees at a glance that a 


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realm of imagery in this individual does not need 
a physical instrument for his expression. One 
asks* does he sing or speak? The answer is yes he 
has both expressions. 

The next question is natural. Is there another 
innate phase of his soul that prevents his career 
becoming that of a singer? 

The expert on hands answers yes. Decidedly. 
He has two mounts and fingers showing a quality 
of soul images predominantly against the career of 
a singer even of the most idealistic nature. 

What are they? The mounts and fingers of 
Saturn and Mercury! The signs that predicate 
science and psychology, the intangible subject that 
to this individual is an open book. 

These assets were the vital and potent subcon- 
scious pictures which were in the soul and were 
dormant, latent. 

Then this individual's choice which decided his 
career in the practical world was not primarily due 
to his environment and responsibilities but due to 
latent pictures in his soul and which were predi- 
cated in Saturn and Mercury figures. Being of the 
superlative idealistic nature his practicality had to 
become rooted in a vocation where idealism could 
serve practicality. The delineation, therefore, of 
his head-line on his right hand is a psychic 
phenomenon. 

The subject has fulfilled the prophecy of his left 
hand in its form and lines : 

The innate has become fulfilled. 

A reader’s mind cannot help but revert to that 
word Fate. The word which magically seems to 
settle the question of choice. 

If one fulfills the innate image, he, in a measure 
could be considered a fulfillment of “Fate.” That 
kind of fatalism is preferably termed fulfillment. 


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The one who thus expresses himself never al- 
ludes to his ultimate attainment as fate. 

Then the subject who considers himself* fated is 
the one, who has expressed himself contrary to his 
innate trend. 

To the mind come the words — the sins of the 
parents are visited upon the children and one hesi- 
tates at the declaration and the idea of one being 
unfated or a free willed individual. 

In every hand is the possibility of dual func- 
tioning of mind. The repressing of the ideal is 
shown upon every hand. The question is spontan- 
eously forthcoming. What did the Idealist have 
against his fulfillment? 

He possessed an over-abundance of Saturn char- 
acteristics. This means he was inclined to be sad, 
despondent, and at times pessimistic; that he in- 
herited this trend is shown in the left hand. He 
accepted a theology which added to his pessimism. 
He could have given way to his despondency, he 
could have developed the lower prong of his head- 
line and become as a consequence, a fanatical ideal- 
ist. The world possesses many fanatics of a quality 
that is anything but ideal. 

He practiced the finer qualities of thought, he 
resisted and gained. As a consequence, he built 
from ideal imagery the ideal fulfillment. 

No hand-prints in the writer’s possession show 
a doomed individual. They show that despite the 
perverted mind and its attempts at destruction, the 
ideal, the innate, the God within the man provides 
the eleventh hour and confession and a trend to at- 
tain the ideal. The writer of these prints could 
easily say, yes, everyone is fated but fated to hear 
the call of his Father in heaven — the within — to 
the hour that the soul leaves the body for its fu- 
ture growth. 


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Sometimes, in every one’s life lie receives some 
impression from that innate. Since this individual, 
who had a fine singing voice, could never formulate 
a picture of himself using music as his self-soul ex- 
pression, he knew he was not predominantly in- 
clined or sufficiently made by his soul to attain per- 
fection, the ideal in that phase of art. Growth is a 
consequence of finding one’s ideal. The spiritual 
trend of the soul is growth and one grows when 
he has found the path of the ideal. 

Judges 9 :16, According to the deserving of his 
hands. 

Job 23:9, On the left hand where he doeth 
work, but I cannot behold him, he hideth himself 
on the right hand that I cannot see him. 

Proverbs 3 :16, Length of days is in her right 
hand and in her left hand riches and honor. 


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£3anh fflreatfotts 

HE Australian Duck-bill, in the totality 
of its structure, stands nearer the com- 
mon primary form of mammals than any 
other living species; its hand consists of 
three parts : A wrist composed of two cross rows 
of bones, a mid-hand composed of five long bones; 
the five digits are so composed that the first has 
two bones while the others have three. All the ele- 
ments are enclosed in a fleshy webb. 

In the mole, the hand has become a shovel for 
digging; it is composed of the same elements but 
the bones are shorter and stronger and packed more 
closely together. 

The bones in the hand of the seal are longer and 
more slender and a fact worthy of note, is that, 
while the thumb has become the longest digit, it 
still retains the typical number of bones. It is com- 
posed of two bones while the other digits have three. 
In the seal, the hand has become a sort of fin. This 
knowledge makes one wonder if the seal’s capacity 
to learn, intelligently to perform, is certified in a 
large thumb as expressed in large thumbs in the 
human hand. 

The hand of the bat has the same bones placed 
in the same relations but drawn out, all except 
those of the first digit, into long and slender rods. 
In the bat the hand has become a sort of wing. 

The potto, one of the lowest of the monkeys, has 
a hand which has the same elements in the same 
relations, but strangely, the index finger has be- 
come atrophied. It is reduced to a vestige although 
not a bone has been dropped. 

In the hand of the gorilla when clad in flesh, it is 
extremely unlike the primitive hand of the duck 
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approaches nearer the primitive hand-pattern than 
any other of the species. 

The man’s hand has not the least change in the 
number of its elements and not the change in their 
disposition. The human hand, in its osteological 
structure approaches nearest the old fashioned, the 
undifferentiated hand of the duck-bill. 

The mole has made a specialty of digging, the 
seal of swimming, the bat of flying, the monkey of 
grasping. Man has not been a specialist. He is 
polytechic. 

Nature has an architectural plan which she car- 
ries throughout her creations but the adaptations 
of the life modify the expressions. 

Nature, Soul, in its ramifications of expression 
is adequately prepared by the possession of an in- 
strument necessary for its manifestation. The 
scientist tells that a horse can detect an impurity 
in water that a chemical analysis does not reveal. 

In Doctor Lindsay’s literature, he states that 
the native animal is in full possession of his psychic 
powers but the domesticated animal has under- 
gone a change, due to suggestions and his contact 
with objective man which prevent the psychic ex- 
pression. 

Every animal’s body has been constructed or 
reconstructed to further its own pursuit in gaining 
its livlihood or to express its innate trend. 

In the perusal of Bailey’s book on birds, one is 
reimpressed at that wonderful inner creative ex- 
pression and its faithfulness to practicality. 

The difference is found in the wings of those 
fowls which live the greater part of their time in 
the air and make long transmigrations and those 
which remain established upon the water. The air 
creatures have wings, or propelling instruments 


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which are truly the hands of their bodies which are 
long and broad and permit the air maneuvers; the 
fowls which live entirely in the water lose the wing 
length and strength and have so constructed their 
legs that some varieties cannot walk for ever so 
short a distance. The legs have become placed too 
far back under, the body to permit it properly to 
balance its own weight for walking, but which do 
serve in propelling its body upon the water. The 
land fowl has its legs properly placed beneath its 
body for balancing purposes and its stable equili- 
brium ; its wings are not as strong as the air fowl, 
or the water fowl. Nature creates where use de- 
mands. 


CfJuoteh from ^ook on ^ropljecg by 
Countess Zaltnskt 


Mine, de Thebes Issued Just Before Her Death a 
Prediction of the Great War. 



HE predictions of Mme. de Thebes were 
to a great extent guided by her knowl- 
edge of palmistry. It must be remem- 
bered that she had seen, at one time or 
another, the hands of many of the greatest celebrit- 
ies in Europe. She had a way of generalizing the 
destinies of nations from the hands which she read. 
With regard to England, she wrote before the out- 
break of the war that she had been much struck by 
the numerous signs of death and wounds by sword 
and tire in the English hands she had read. ‘What,’ 
she asked, ‘may signify these signs among so many 
Englishmen who have no connection or relation- 
ship with each other. Can they refer to deaths in 
war? She also added that she had observed as well 


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an extraordinary number of indications of death 
by drowning, and these suggested to her some great 
devastation by a flood. Subsequent developments 
have proved a different clue to the indications 
which she observed. In her last almanac she states 
that she regrets to observe similar signs multiply- 
ing in the hands of Americans. ‘Not only/ she re- 
marks ‘have I seen these in the case of those Am- 
ericans whom I have had the opportunity of inter 
viewing, but my pupils who have had fuller oppor- 
tunities than myself in this direction have con- 
firmed my own observations and misgivings/ ” 
This last was written several months before the 
entry of America into the war, and but a month or 
six weeks after the election of an American presi- 
dent whose ideals were those of Peace rather than 
of War.” 






























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(A ^Eabg’a ^Sattb 

the average individual should wish to 
dopt a baby he would be charmed by 
le baby who possesses these hands. A 
Lore adorable little thing never lived. 
She is keenly alive and her blue eyes sparkle as she 
nods, listens and takes the liveliest interest in every 
thing and everybody that comes into her presence. 
Her features are perfect and the soft golden curls, 
framing her dainty face win the admiration of all 
who see her. 

A psychologist, who would adopt this child, 
would ask immediately : What pictures are stored 
within the soul of this beautiful, tiny instrument? 
What is the line of ancestry? 

An agriculturist would ask if he were to accept 
a seed — from whence did this seed come? What 
are the potent possessions? Were the bloom and 
fruit desirable in quality? What has been the line 
of antecedence? 

Any conscientious adopter would see that the 
child was provided with a perfect environment to 
insure a safe future — an ideal fulfillment in body 
and character. 

A psychologist, knowing the value of aspiration 
would use his knoweldge do neutralize any destruc- 
tive trend and would cultivate the potencies of the 
perfect : He would succeed under the principles of 
his science and have the perfect fulfillment as a 
result of their application. 

A reader would say ; that is all that the average 
individual can do in raising a child. When one 
sees results in the usual subject who is expressing 
only fifty percent of himself — the real — self, one 
knows that ideal principles are lacking. 



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But a cheirognomist and a cheiromancist, with 
the science of practical psychology would be in the 
same relation to this child that Luther Burbank 
would be with his seed or offshoot and his knowl- 
edge of its soul and its potencies, with the power of 
providing the proper environment which would de- 
termine the ultimate expression of perfection. 

Even with a Burbank ideal of perfection, the 
innate department of soul, thus liberated, has 
transcended the ideal and brought uplift to the 
cultivator; this has been Luther Burbank’s expe- 
rience in the horticulture world, as well as Doctor 
Lindsay’s experience in the human world. 

The writer has made a most careful study of 
these prints and will take prints of these hands 
every year if it is possible and watch the growth to 
determine the potency of pictures, images and the 
power of suggestion as given by a young mother 
who claims that she is anxious to liberate her in- 
fant from inherited tendencies. 

Her confessions were made after a reading had 
been given; the writer has discovered that “know- 
ing thyself” is the almost unattainable. Confes- 
sions come to the psychologist that the ordinary 
reader of hands could never gain. 

Any observer will notice the difference between 
the left hand and the right hand. The left hand is 
more ideal in form and freer in its action; the 
Mercury finger sets higher upon the palm and is 
an eighth of an inch longer ; the phalanges are dif- 
ferent in their lengths; the first phalanges, indicat- 
ing the possession of idealism, are greater in ex- 
pression in the left hand than in the right. All 
of the left hand fingers set upon the palm in a 
better line than do the right hand fingers. 

The thumb of the left hand is more refined in 
its form, having the waist-like second phalanx 


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which shows tact, besides being longer in both pha- 
langes which denote that the mind as it functions 
in will power and has the capacity of analysis. This 
is true of more than a dozen prints taken while the 
child’s attention was drawn to other sources. 
Naturalness of the position of the fingers was thus 
gained. 

The spacings between the fingers in the left 
hand show the distance greater between Jupiter 
and Saturn in the left hand over that of the right, 
while the opposite is the case in the third space 
between the Mercury and Apollo fingers. 

The first space shows a decided independence 
in thought, an inclination to think things out in 
her own individual manner. The right hand shows 
that the thought life is lacking or less free and her 
actions are more independent. This difference is 
quite vital when the reader is informed that on the 
right hand this child possesses what cheiromancist 
have designated an open head-line which means 
that she has a great, go-a-head, spirit also an in- 
clination to be rash or impetuous in her acts and 
has no inclination to think as she should before an 
act is committed. 

The operator could not get this head and life- 
line separation to show in the print because the 
Positive Mount of Mars is very, very large and 
therefore marred the line when the hand was 
pressed upon the paper: This corroborates the im- 
pulsive nature read in the spacing and the char- 
acter of the thumb. This last mount is not large 
in the left hand and the life-line and head-line are 
found together under Jupiter which signifies a 
sensitiveness which is utterly lacking in the right 
hand. 

It is very confusing to a novice, knowing that 
these widely unlike hands belong to one baby and 


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that the various potencies of expression are under 
the control of a soul which builds the life. Doctor 
Lindsay teaches that a child possesses the pictures 
the images of the ancestors and parents in the sub- 
conscious, that a child is all soul, with an ap- 
pointed objective organ of mind capable of develop 
ment into expression through suggestions and en- 
vironment Avhich brings forth the stored up images 
in possession. One asks immediately what will this 
child express? Can a psychologist of the hand re- 
veal which phase will be predominant or be ful- 
filled? 

Continue the analogue and determine: Note 
the differences in the Apices: On the left hand 
each apex is perfectly placed while on the right 
hand Mercury pulls toward Saturn and the Apol- 
lonian finger bends toward the Saturn finger. This 
presages that the melancholy, pessimistic trend is 
very strong : The Saturn finger tip, however, is not 
quite as full or heavy, telling a reader that a super- 
ficial attention is quite natural, for the left hand 
Saturn finger corresponds in character; the child 
inherits this from the mother, possibly the char- 
acteristics thus signified are enforced by the father 
but unfortunately the writer does not possess the 
father’s prints. 

Note the difference in the mental-line; the one 
in the left hand is longer and better placed. The 
right hand head or mental-line has an obstructing 
line to its progress showing defeat in prophecy by 
some trouble and corroborated later in this writ- 
ing. 

Note the difference in the heart-lines, the left is 
well placed and accurate in its progress toward the 
space between Saturn and Jupiter. The left hand 
heart-line is forked with the lower line of fork 
descending toward the Positive Mars Mount. 


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The heaviest line on the hands which is equal in 
strength in both hands is the one which sweeps 
down the hand from under the Mount of Mercury 
and below the heart-line called the Hepatica-line 
and it joins the life-line. This is a sign that por- 
tends that disease pictures of a serious nature have 
caused a short life-line in the line of ancestry; 
some well established destructive trend is within 
this beautiful child. A line of via lascivia which 
curves and in nature is like the Mercury-line or 
Hepatica line is marked plainly upon the left hand 
and faintly outlined upon the right. Another line 
on the left hand from the Mount of Mercury above 
the heart-line descends the hand and embraces the 
Mercury or Hepatica-line. 

Add to these observations the many lines that 
cross the hand from Positive Mars and Venus 
toward Mercury which tells that the child’s soul 
is full of importunate pictures and their attendant 
emotions which the ancestors have experienced. 
The nature of the right hand strengthens the pro- 
phecy in the left. The question presents itself to 
an analytical mind: Which hand with its pro- 
phecy will be expressed? What characteristics wil 1 
be fulfilled? A careful analysis of the mother’s 
hand-prints will enlighten the questioner. 

Turn to the mother’s print : Since both hands 
of the mother of this baby are so much alike, only 
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Note that the little finger, Mercury is long, in- 
dicating the power of expression of an ideal char- 
acter is inherited by the baby. A musical gift, 
which, if developed, could provide this temper- 
mental nature an outlet and thus annul the force 
and its emotional trend in a destructive direction. 
Music is of a refined quality, would harmonize and 
preserve the life from the disasters so plainly 
marked in the right hand; another characteristic 
inherited from the mother’s soul is the open head- 
line, the go-a-head spirit, a lack of sensitiveness, an 
inclination to be rash and impetuous. 

This mother has inherited a forked head-line 
from her parents. In her left hand print the upper 
line of the fork is much heavier which is not true in 
the right hand print, the lower line of the fork is 
heavier; this indicates that she has not developed 
her practical qualities but has given way to her im- 
agination as she lias grown into womanhood; the 
dual functioning of mind is pronouncedly signed 
in this fork. The lower line of the fork has over 
it a line from the heart-line which sweeps across 
the mental-line reaching in the Plain of Mars — 
the Field of Life — the center of the palm, and drops 
down the hand making a second fork upon the 
lower line of the mental fork. This denotes that 
her affections have been misplaced, that worry and 
distress cause an unhealthy imagination. There 
are periods of despair and a time when a thought 
of suicide will creep into her mind. The hand is 
hollow at this point denoting disappointment and 
a lack of vital strength. A line, almost a short 
destiny line parallels this grief line and crosses the 
life line, corroborating ill health and mental dis- 
tress. 

The heart-line stops under Saturn which differs 
from the left hand heart-Jine; several descending 


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lines from the right hand heart-line into its Mars 
Mount and its lessened length corroborates the tes- 
timony rendered that her affections and the hus- 
band who won them bring her grief and ill health. 

The mental-lines on both hands rise on Positive 
Mars, showing an inherent timidity, fear keeps her 
in bondage to the one with whom through her rash 
acts she became involved. 

The young mother’s left hand shows that one of 
her parents was extremely ambitious but that par- 
ent passed out of her life in early life. 

The life line indicates that the mother of this 
mother died while young. Some one else came into 
the young woman’s life and that one again, was 
extremely ambitious but accompanies the subject, 
mentally always and sometimes witb personal care 
until she is approximately near the age of 23 or 24 
years. Strong opposing lines cross her life-line 
from 18 years to about 23. Contentions and people 
disturb the harmony of her life, worry her mind, 
but approach her through her lack of control of 
her emotions. The heaviest line of opposition to 
her personal good is repeated at 22, this opposition 
follows her life until her 35th year and then gradu- 
ally fades away. 

The lines on the Mount of Mercury called the 
affection lines and marriage ties are numerous and 
sweep downward into the heart-line significant of 
an emotional nature which is easily aroused by the 
opposite sex. At approximately near the age of 
35, a lover impresses her life. A forked marriage 
line near the 35th year and crossed by a heavy 
line, shows that the subject is a widower and that 
there are strong opposers to the companionship. 
This is corroborated by a line across the life-line at 
that period. 

A later marriage is consummated, signified by 


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an unmarred marriage) line on the Mount of Mer- 
cury and another line which accompanies the life, 
adding ultimately to the success of the life. 

The Destiny line, or the line of images held in 
the soul and due to the acts of her parents and the 
lack of an environment which they provided, was 
uncertain and disastrous. Squares certify this. 
Squares or preservation insignia’ lay on this short 
destiny-line on the Luna Mount side and tells a 
reader that her life was preserved or aided by out- 
siders or people of no kin, rather than her own peo- 
ple ; she leaves her provided environment very sud- 
denly, shown by the line broken off, approximately 
near the age of 26. It is quite evident by her right 
hand that the opposite sex gives her sorrow and 
that she is apt to leave a safe environment for a 
bad one. The rashness in the head-line, the 
chained and islanded heart-line, the wide space be- 
tween the Saturn and Apollo fingers which signifies 
freedom from circumstances and no regard for her 
future, bear witness to this last conclusion. 

The mother’s thumb shows a timid, tightly 
bound mental view, as well as a tendency to be self- 
ish; she is not generously inclined in her mental 
attitudes nor in herl giving of things. 

The mother’s musical gift is never cultivated. 
The writer has concluded from the evidence gath- 
ered in hundreds of prints, that any subject who 
possesses an innate trend of music, possesses a 
strong emotional nature which must be provided 
an ideal outlet or that subject is more apt to in- 
cline toward emotional upsets that will wreck the 
body and mind. They are psychically sensitive to 
environment. This subject’s thumb joints are very 
stiff. This is the unfortunate revelation which pro- 
nounces her utter inability to adjust herself to 
people or to her environment. Add to this unfor- 


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tunate characteristic a complete inability to ad- 
just herself, the lack of regard for her future, the 
dual mind power tending toward the imaginative 
lather than the practical, the large Mount of Luna 
and the imaginative insignia on all hands, a large 
Mount of Venus, heavily lined, certifies all of the 
above reading and convinces the reader that our 
beautiful baby has not much chance of a fine and 
constructive environment to educate the good 
images in preference to the bad. 

Let us proceed to a nalyze the child’s right- 
hand. 

The hands show : ( 1 ) what one should become ; 
(2) what one can become; (3) what one has be- 
come. 

What should this child become: What is its 
innate trend and what inherited images does it 
possess toward providing an instrument through 
which the innate can express and cause its fulfill- 
ment. The baby’s hands are Conic : 

Conic form of fingers denotes that this soul must 
express whichever beauty predominates; there is 
inherently a love for color, form and tone. The 
Apollo finger is very strong and long and certifies 
that Apollonian characteristics are strong. The 
Greeks named their third finger Apollo — the God 
of beauty, of Love — because possessors of this long 
finger had Apollo traits. They are attractive in 
appearance, having beautiful eyes, lovely white 
teeth, a rare smile, are quick to catch ideas, are 
generously inclined, have the ability to express 
themselves without much effort, Tire graceful in 
their actions and are very joyous and spontaneous 
in their disposition. The Apollonians are consid- 
ered fortunate because things and people naturally 
gravitate to them. This baby’s right hand signifies 
that any line of art would be an innate fulfillment. 


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At nine months old, this art trend is so persistent 
that even at nine months of age, her soul lias lined 
the Apollo Mount, and revealing that creative abil- 
ity is inherent. Latent pictures await the chance 
to spring forth and express their character at the 
first opportunity. Since these lines are absent on 
the mother’s hand, one wisely concludes that the 
father has much ability: the child’s thumb radi 
cally differs from that of the mother. One must 
not conclude that every child inherits a left hand 
from a mother and a right hand from a father be- 
cause of this case more persistently showing a fath- 
er’s trend in its right hand; this child’s nature is 
not like the mother’s. 

These prints show a decidedly large positive 
Mount of Mars in the right hand and a large 
Mount of Mars in the left print, therefore the child 
has a fighting spirit to accompany the independent 
action in the third finger spacing and the open 
head-line. The right hand thumb shows a strong 
romantic emotional nature but also a violent tem- 
per. Even on so small a hand this child has de- 
veloped a negative Mount of Mars, the mount 
under the heart-line and Mercury. She has not a 
large Mount of Luna, nor has she the unfortunate 
sloping headline: though the right hand head-line 
has a line across it under the Apollo Mount, the 
head line continues its progress across the palm, 
signifying that obstacles do not deter her defin- 
itely. 

Dr. Lindsay teaches that an experience of the 
mother’s is often transmitted to her child in mem- 
ory form, or in other words, the soul, through tele- 
pathy implants the experience to be re-lived un- 
less some act or thought neutralizes the fertility of 
the thought-seed. This child, then, can reproduce 
the experiences, can, through telepathy, attract 


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the instrument who can fulfill in the child’s life her 
mother’s sad pictures. 

Will she? The writer says, No! 

Observe the ascending lines on the right hand : 
presaging success. Observe a looped line from 
within positive Mars, which crosses the life-line, the 
head-line, and the heart-line and then turns up 
toward Apollo. It writes on the wall, yes, the Soul 
writes on the wall these words: Success! I have 
through my persistence, brought the person who 
assists this instrument through which I must oper- 
ate. 

Some one assists this persistent character to 
attain: Assists? How does one know? Because 
the crossing line does not deter the integrity of the 
three vital lines — life, head and heart. This occurs 
later: To a psychologist, the repetition of an ex- 
perience, is natural, is law. That which is lived 
emotionally is reimpressed in picture form upon 
the soul in the registered department or in memory 
and every thought so dynamically lived will repeat 
the experience in the life. 

All cross-lines reach the heart line and ascend 
the Mounts of Apollo, Saturn and Mercury. She 
has two destiny lines; one leaves the life at near 
the 35th year while the other leaves the Plain of 
Mars at that period ; both ascend the right hand and 
cross the heart-line to the Mounts, presaging suc- 
cess commensurate with her own efforts. Another 
line leaves the percussion of the hand and travels 
up the hand to the Apollo Mount, signifying that 
some one accompanies her in her destiny because 
the line joins in with the destiny-line and embraces 
the line which crosses the life line from Venus and 
which makes the destiny line heavier. In prophecy 
the lines show that nothing deters the integrity of 
the vital lines. Though obstacles come, this subject 


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uses obstacles and every opportunity to rise, to at- 
tain. 

The Hepatica line is distinctly marked upon 
the right hand. 

Turn to the left hand: Observe the He- 
patica line, the via lascivia line and their vitality. 
Notice that the life line is very weak, that it has a 
large island at the head-line joining, also a second 
island is formed where the Hepatica and life-lines 
join, notice another line from this island forma- 
tion and its embrace of lines from Positive Mars 
as well as all of the conflicting lines across the 
palm; notice that the life line has lost all of its 
integrity. This means that drunkenness, debauch 
has been the inheritance from the father’s side. 
Why from the father? 

Because the mother has no Mercury or He- 
patica line, nor via lascivia. 

When this was told to the mother that her little 
girl had inherently a desire for strong drink, she 
exclaimed, “Oh ! yes, I know you are right ; she 
loves ginger ale, and just smacks her lips and 
shrieks for more. She does not like any fluid 
unless it has that pep in it like ginger ale. What 
shall I do to correct the abnormal appetite?” 

Suggestions of the neutralizing nature, as well 
as the building quality were given ; the writer was 
surprised that the mother took the knowledge of 
the child’s abnormality so coolly. Upon inquiry 
later, information was given that the child’s grand- 
father was a drug habitue and that the father was 
given to intoxication. 

Other instructions were given the mother con- 
cerning her child’s ungovernable temper so plainly 
shown in its right hand thumb. What the child has 
become, is certified by the form of her right hand. 
People and things are always making her angry. 


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Without any delay, she shrieks and kicks, growls 
and looks fierce at the slightest provocation and 
fulfilling the right hand Mars reading, as well 
as the Short Mercury finger. There is no tact, no 
effort to wield another into surrendering to her 
wishes unless she is so disposed, in other words she 
uses force to obtain her own results. If that fails, 
she changes into her adorable smile and every one 
rushes to give her that which she demands. 

What change will come into the right hand as 
she grows and learns? 

She is practically inclined as stated above and 
will quickly reason the best way for her to gain 
that which she wants. Her nature is the restless, 
wanting kind, shown in the open head line, spatu- 
late palm and Apollo finger and conic tipped 
fingers. 

With her splendid mental equipment she will 
see the best way to pursue ; also her life-line grows 
stronger after thirty-five and if she were to dissi- 
pate to any extent this would not occur. The 
mother has connections who are of good character 
and the suggestions, since these relatives are stu- 
dents of practical psychology and are aspiring to 
use the ideal way to neutralize these bad pictures 
and its natural taste, will preserve the child. No 
doubt, other lines of not an ideal character will 
leave the hand. 

The writer has seen destructive lines disappear 
through Dr. Lindsay’s ideal mode of treatment. 
The soul, in its beneficence, in its compensatory 
trend to save, has given this child the one element 
with its force, which is necessary to overcome that 
which the mother has brought through her weak- 
ness and vacillating nature; her own character 
which attracted or brought to herself a husband 


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who could fulfill only destructive picture and emo- 
tions. 

The Mars’ spirit in this child is a blessing ; she 
will attain the heights and escape the registered 
images and the sorrow through scientific prayers. 
Ezekiel 2 :21022 ; He looked in the lines, at his right 
hand was the divination for Jerusalem. 

Habakkuk 3 :4 ; He had horns coming out of 
his hand and there was the hiding of his power. 

Corinthians 12 :21 ; By the Armour of right- 
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HESE prints show few lines and because 
of the misinterpretation of Hand read- 
ers, students invariably exclaim : “What 
a cold-blooded, indifferent man the pos- 
sessor of these hands must be !” 

It goes to prove that combination reading so 
guardedly advised by Benham has failed to impress 
the student. The writer’s analogue disproves the 
assertion of cold-bloodedness. 

These hands are a combination of the Conic, the 
Spatulate and the philosophical. 

Since both hands are much alike, the right 
hand print, only, is enclosed and is designated 
“B.” 

The Conic tipped fingers with the predomin- 
ance of length in the first and ideal phalanges indi- 
cate that the soul of this individual has an emo- 
tional, artistic temperament; he is intuitive, he 
loves beautiful surroundings, he loves music and 
art. 

The firmness of the hand and the straight head- 
line across the entire palm of the hand show that 
this subject is not carried away indolently to ad- 
mire, to indulge his tastes but that in the midst of 
a busy, practical life, a scientific life, he is thrilled 
by beauty wherever he meets it. He does not create 
art, but he appreciates it. He becomes a harmony 
in loving beauty. This is very significant. 

The fingers are decidedly heavy on the tips, 
showing a peculiar sensitiveness in his nature, es- 
pecially toward others or in his relationships. 

The large joints indicate that a power of analy- 
sis is a quality of his mind, which is further ex- 
plained in a large second phalanx of his intellectu- 
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phalanx, the insignia of will power, a mental deter- 
mination of a high character. 

The waist-like base of the fingers shows that 
he is unselfish. The large spaces between the 
lingers show that he is free, is liberated in thought, 
in his circumstances, in his actions, by his splendid 
mental equipment which he knows how to exercise. 
The length of the fingers indicates that he is care- 
ful in details in that which occupies his attention. 
He is never careless. 

The Mercury finger is long and is supported and 
sustained by Saturn. Aipollo is third and Jupiter 
is last. Immediately an informed reader knows 
that this man, though ambitious, marked by a life 
line which rises high on the very high Mount of 
Jupiter, does not care to lead. The Jupiter finger 
measures the first and the ideal phalanx — one inch 
and one eighth, the second and mental phalanx — 
seven eighths of an inch, the third and physical- 
seven eighth of an inch, and denotes that the 
Jupiterian assertion will be of the spirit of har- 
mony, of an interpretative nature. 

Saturn is built differently; the first and ideal 
phalanx measures one inch and an eighth added; 
the second and mental maesures one inch, the third 
and physical phalanx measures one inch and one 
eighth. 

The perfect-placed apex of Saturn and the 
heavy tip, added to the waist-like base of the finger 
indicate a studious nature. Scientific investiga- 
tions of an ideal quality attract his eager atten- 
tion; with chemistry, physics, history and mathe- 
matics applied to the ideal occupation. The ideal 
phalanx certifies that psychology, the cause, the 
hidden and invisible attracts his mind and know- 
ing that his mind controls him absolutely shown 
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that the man must be in service to the creation of 
man. He must be innately a surgeon and phy- 
sician of the ideal degree. 

The Mercury qualities but support the Saturn. 
The first phalanx measures one inch and an eighth ; 
the second, five eights of an inch and the third six 
eighths of an inch. The Mercurian finger is very 
long and is fully one-fourth of an inch longer than 
the left hand Mercurian finger which indicates 
that he has put into execution the qualities for 
which the finger stands. 

Mr. Henhanrs book and knowledge being super- 
ior to other writers and the writer’s proof of that 
knowledge in close application to print reading 
will testify; to this individual’s talents and expres- 
sion. 

This man is extremely quick and active in his 
mind and agile in his body. He is intuitive, is fond 
of oratory and has the power of eloquence in his 
own expression. He is a splendid judge of human 
nature and character. At any test of mental alert 
ness, he proves capable ; he is very industrious and 
energetic. 

Having the ideal phalanx so long certifies that 
the study of psychology, occultism, is a natural 
trait of his mind that the science which baffles 
most men, is not intangible to him. This subject 
would give a great deal of attention to causes of in- 
harmonies and their effects. He would not be sat- 
isfied to deal with effects only as the average phy- 
sician must do. That which could be remedied by 
scientific skill but which mind power, or the won- 
derful intangible force that builds a man, would 
more quickly receive his keenest support. He lias, 
in other words, the innate inclination to be a sur- 
geon. That he has become one is certified by the 
right hand having increased lengths of the fingers 


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that denote the exercise of these powers. This is 
revealed as well in the lines of the hand. 

The palm is spatula te in shape and denotes 
that the soul expresses energy. He is, since Mer- 
cury rules the form of the hand, the nervous, active 
type. He is energetically interested in life and is 
an indefatigable worker. 

The Conic traits add inspiration, intuition 
which lessens the necessity of excessive applica- 
tion. He has a degree of the inventive, uncon ven- 
tionable attitude in his work. He is decidedly 
practical for the palm is wider at the base of the 
fingers than at the wrist. 

The thumb sets medium low upon the palm ; an- 
other indication that the soul has an equipment 
of mind power which leads the emotions. Here is 
corroborated the inclination toward life in its real- 
ness. He is not romantic but has keen perceptions 
and judgment, accompanied by deep sympathy 
which permits him to handle life and life’s instru- 
ments scientifically. The thumb bespeaks gener- 
osity and independence, a love of liberty for him- 
self as well as for others. As a surgeon he would 
avail himself of every method generously to supply 
a patient with freedom. Those who are in distress 
will receive his favor whenever it is within his 
power to grant one. The nail phalanx is broad 
and a trifle flat which denotes nervous force. 

He has the diplomatic determination to suc- 
ceed without offending others; his persistence is 
refined and tactful. 

There is a mental strength in this subject’s 
thumb which would cause him to triumphantly go 
through every emergency with success. There is a 
lack of physical strength in the hand which would 
subject him to periods of collapse unless he com- 
prehends the line of limitation. 


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He lias a sanguine disposition shown in the 
pink color. The nails are large and beautifully 
shaped with large moons which indicate a splendid 
circulation. He has no tendency to criticise hu- 
manity for its fallacies. 

A radical change came in the form of his hand 
as he grew from childhood into manhood. Jupiter 
is lessened in strength ; is shorter and sets a trifle 
lower in the right hand. 

Mercury in the left hand sets lower and is short- 
er than in the right hand. 

Saturn has remained the same and his prefer- 
ence for laboratory occupations, his love for na- 
ture’s expressions, the country, the sombre amuse- 
ments and the serious and melancholy quality of 
music, has ever been the same, in youth and man- 
hood. 

He dislikes restraint and his natural inde- 
pendence might cause him to become opionated for 
his mental equipment makes him superior to the 
average person. 

Intense nervousness is the only indication of a 
health difficulty but his splendid mind will gain for 
him the knowledge to overcome that excessive 
energy. All of the apices in the right hand are 
centrally located. He is thoroughly interested in 
himself and his innate pursuits, his vocation and 
avocations. The apices in the left hand are well 
placed with the exception of Apollo which drew 
from its location toward Saturn. This shows that 
his superior mind qualities remedied the inclina- 
tion toward being pessimistic, gloomy and morose. 
His hands show that all defects have been erased. 

The mental line crosses both hands the entire 
width of the hand, in a straight line. There is a 
difference in the left hand in that the line is broken 
in the center, the ends over-lapping with a minute 


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separation between the ends. Also the heart-line 
which rests high upon the mounts sends a heavy 
descending prong into the mount of Mars. 

The reader sees that this is not true of the right 
hand. There are no breaks in the mental line, nor 
does the heart-line show a downward curve. 

The writer possesses the prints of the mother of 
this young man, the subject of this analysis. 

Her hands reveal a tragedy. She has a 
psychic hand Avhich is marred. Her keenly sen- 
sitive nature suffered through the unkindness of 
another. And in the Mount of Mars is written a 
home-tragedy. 

The cross lines on the “B” print in Mars is a 
corroboration of inharmony in their home. A fine 
line leaves Mars, crosses the life line and turns 
directly upward toward Saturn. This subject must 
have left his home at that age, approximately near 
the age of 16 or IT years. 

The sensitiveness to home and people is indi- 
cated by the life-line joining the head-line under 
Jupiter. The three parallel lines with the life-line 
indicate that his family means a strong and lasting 
impression and connection. If he left, he no doubt 
would return if liberation were granted him. 

At the 28th year of life some one comes into 
his life. Only a sincere regard would impress this 
subject’s hand. An affection line, at 28, marks the 
Mount of Mercury corroborating an attachment. 
This man would love with his mind; his love would 
be intense and lasting. 

Upon the Mount of Luna is distinctly an indi- 
vidual outline. His career line, cutting across the 
life-line corroborates the leaving of home ; two lines 
accompany this line ; one forms a thin triangle 
while the second line travels in the center of the 
triangle. 


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A triangle is a mark signifying that of a scien- 
tific nature. The writer thinks that some accident, 
or sickness occurred early in life and a scientific 
mode annulled the defect. 

A companion conies into this individual's life, 
late in life and goes to the end with him. 

His hand is free from worry or destructive emo- 
tions. He has no one molesting his life or dis- 
tracting his mind. A small sun-line or line of 
Apollo spells success and happiness. A small de- 
fect on the heart-line under Apollo might suggest a 
weakness of the eyes, but of slight consideration, 
but his studious nature might cause over use. 

When the head-line lias the width and depth 
as is shown in this print, cheiromancists have 
claimed that the heart-line and head-line have 
embraced each other, and that if the hand is emo- 
tional, lias a small thumb and other deficient 
eheirognomical deliniations that the possessor is 
criminally inclined. The mother of this youth was 
particularly anxious for the writer to give an hon- 
est reading because for years she had the thought 
that her son was so inclined because of the above 
statement concerning his hand by a so-called palm- 
ist. 

The writer does not condemn the government 
for annulling the right to practice when half-in- 
formed individuals give such destructive conclu- 
sions. 

When this young man’s sensitive nature could 
not endure inharmony, when his splendid mind 
could not live under tyranny, her conclusion was 
that he was selfish, unfeeling and heartless. He 
is just the opposite but his lack of sensuousness, of 
romanticism baffles the superficial observer. 

The highest sentiments fill his soul. The love 
of truth, of scientific subjects, of nature and all of 


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her ramifying expressions require sentiment of the 
highest degree. 

If this hand has the embraced lines, heart and 
head, then he has a second heart-line which lies 
upon the mounts. It is not a long girdle of Venus 
as some would claim, for a perfect and broken 
girdle runs in its correct position. 

All delicately sensitive people have this girdle, 
the nervousness especially under control when it is 
broken. 

This second line, if so it be the writer has con- 
cluded this is the case because the left hand line is 
broken or over lapped, caused the conclusion that 
the young man’s nature is loving but that his affec- 
tions are ever under the control of a splendid mind. 

The writer possesses several prints with the one 
line, embracing the heart and head, and in every 
case has given the reading that the possessor had 
been reared in a home where parents quarreled, 
where the ideal of love was shattered and caused 
the child to take a dislike toward its opposite sex. 

In every case this reading has been correct. One 
mother explained that her son absolutely disliked 
young women. The writer had given her son a 
reading and had from him a full acknowledgement 
of his parent’s continual disagreement. The very 
thought of home-life was disliked. He, too, inclined 
toward a scientific pursuit and had a mind of un- 
usual quality. 

Job 37 :7 ; Eng. version. He sealeth up the 
hand of every man that all men may know his 
work. 


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®l|e Jjan ani» ®rta«glc 



HE fan and triangle formation upon the 
life-line in a print in the writer’s pos- 
session is evidence of the statement, that 
history repeats itself in the individual 


life unless the images involved in the experience 
are neutralized by scientific suggestion. 


The fan and triangle pattern occurs on the life- 
line twice ; the first symbol is near the age of thirty, 
while the second insignia nears the age of thirty-six 
or seven. 


The first formation was indicative of a crisis; 
her second son was born but the event to her sig- 
nified liberation. For his sake she prayed for free- 
dom : It was indicative of inspired resolutions : 
Though this subconscious expression had no objec- 
tive evidence than their symbolism upon her right 
hand and was invisible to her family, because like 
a fertile seed — a new idea — it began its evolution 
hidden from objective sight, the builder— her own 
soul — knew that an instrument, her son, had come 
into existence and would eventually provide libera- 
tion. The mental growth predicated in this fan 
and triangle formation was deterred in its com- 
plete fulfillment of the ideal because of the regis- 
trations of fear which her sensitive nature had per- 
mitted to exist. Her life was not placed upon the 
scientific basis. 


The second formation and crisis marked on the 
life-line was the result of surrender. Dr. Lindsay 
has stated that despair is a situation where the ob- 
jective has surrendered and the soul in its omnipo- 
tence avails itself of the occasion to reconstruct. 

This crisis came after the elapse of fifteen years 


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in which she had suffered in silence, in fear and 
endurance the selfishness and unkindness of her 
husband : 

One day, so she recounts in the midst of her 
work, “a something inside snapped,” which was 
followed by her having a peculiar sensation of fall- 
ing to the floor in abandoned exhaustion. 

She was informed of the history she had made 
during this subconscious state, spent for several 
weeks in a hospital. 

After having heard a lecture on the “Subcon- 
scious and the Emotions,” she explained to the 
writer that no woman had been made more con- 
scious of her great subconscious department of 
mind and its emotions than had she, in her expe- 
rience of a psychical illness. 

Though she was considered unconscious during 
the lapse of many weeks, she had automatically, 
spontaneously performed in an unusual and daring 
manner. In other words, she had expressed her real 
nature, the independent, ambitious phase of her- 
self which is shown in the shape of her hand; she 
had yielded and finally had given tribute to the 
strong Jupiterian trend which the conscious mind 
had suppressed. Her acquired department of mind, 
that phase of the subconscious mind called memory 
contained pictures which had been gained by the 
rigid discipline of her childhood home. 

She recounts that during the earliest period of 
her convalescence she wondered why one of her 
sons was always present at her bedside with loving 
attention. 

The physician explained to her question that 
her constant demand and vehement words for the 
presence of her son did not dare be denied her for 
though seemingly unconscious concerning every- 
thing, she knew if he left her bedside for a moment. 


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She was astounded at her informer’s words. She 
felt that “her heart was being permitted to voice” 
at last, because preceding her collapse this son had 
been unjustly compelled to spend an entire cold 
night upon their veranda as punishment assigned 
by his father for not appearing at an earlier, com- 
manded hour. This occurrence had duly grieved 
her and her hours of entreaty had left the father 
obdurate. 

Other disclosures followed pertaining to hap- 
penings during this deep subjective condition which 
revealed the mistreatment she had endured 
through the husband. Her ravings expressed her 
resentment as well as her hatred of his actions. 
Consequently the hospital authorities denied him 
entrance to her room ; later the physician observed 
that the unconscious patient began her violent rav- 
ings the moment her husband stepped off of the 
street car before the hospital entrance. It became 
absolutely essential to demand his discontinuance 
of attention until his wife was out of danger. Pas- 
sivity was a requisite to attain recovery. 

A partial recovery permitted her to return to 
her home; her “mind seemed too tired to analyze 
events,” but she did notice that her husband was 
at home only at rare intervals and for short dura- 
tion. She surmised that her inner self and her real 
feelings had been given an outlet. This conclusion 
was formed because of small changes in his atti 
tude toward her. She questioned and was ans- 
wered. 

After she had been carried from her home to a 
hospital room she had remained for several days 
in an unconscious state which resembled death. 
Then a change came in the form of activity of a 
mind that poured forth ravings, resentment of her 
husband’s treatment of her. All the stored up pic- 


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tures in the memory vault were given expression 
when her sentinel, her conscious and volitionary 
department of mind was off guard, off duty. 

The presence of her husband increased her bit- 
ter words and made her violent in her actions. Her 
subjective self knew of his approach to the hospital 
and only the presence of her son could pacify, 
could allay her mind. 

At this revelation, she understood this phase 
of her expression better than did her physician. 
She had suffered too keenly over the mistreatment 
of her son to misunderstand. 

She relates the following concerning her first 
consciousness. She found herself lying upon a 
bed with a bandage over her eyes. She knew that 
she was in a hospital although it was entirely a 
new experience to her. She could not tell how she 
knew so definitely her surroundings ; something 
within her revealed to her the furnishings of her 
room. She possessed an enoyment of peace be- 
yond her understanding; she felt no inclination to 
move or to remove the bandage from her eyes. 

Presently a physician entered the room ; he ap- 
proached from behind a large screen and circled 
her bed and reached her side. She waited in 
silence. He very carefully raised the bandage and 
silently seemed to inspect her; still she felt no dis- 
position to move. The serene repose was too en- 
chanting to dispel. Suddenly, he astounded her 
by sighing in deep despair and then carelessly toss- 
ing the cold bandage across her face he strode 
from her room. 

She knew that he considered that she was dead ; 
his mistake amused her. She reasoned that she 
should make some effort to move and succeeded 
just as her nurse entered her room. 

This effort of her will began her real recovery. 


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There is much to relate concerning this state of 
subjectivity and its phenomenal manner of expres- 
sion but the writer must reveal how this crisis has 
marked the hand. The theory of dual personality 
is refuted in the science of the hand. The tremend- 
ous versatility of one’s soul is proved by the 
science. The innate trend can be repressed but 
never annihilated. The key to action is suggestion 
or images. Every hand examined by the writer 
has had dual expression-possibilities. The call of 
the innate is pathetically made in silence in the 
hand. 

Her hands are beautifully formed and the tex 
ture and structure bear out the ideals predicated 
in the cheirognomy. The apices are finely placed, 
the fingers are well balanced in their divisions of 
ideality, mentality and the physical; the large 
thumb is medium set. The Jupiterian finger is the 
most predominant in expression and this finger 
sets out from the other fingers making a wide 
space; a cheirognomist would know that the inde- 
pendent spirit with its innate right to expression 
which built that independent formation would suf- 
fer greatly at repression and cause the individual 
to suffer and to feel humiliated. To live daily sub- 
ject to that which was not the innate ideal was a 
severe punishment to this divinely wrought woman. 

At a glance a cheiromancist would appreciate 
the finely placed lines and their integrity. The 
life-line, the head-line and the heartline- are per- 
fectly placed upon the finely formed hand. 

The rising of the life-line upon Jupiter shows 
that ambition has filled the mind with the highest 
of aspirations. 

The inherited degree of timidity is shown by 
the mental-line rising upon Mars in the left hand. 
In the right hand she possesses the open head-line. 


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This is an expression coined by Clieiro which signi- 
fies that the life-line and head-line do not mingle or 
run together. Both lines rise on Jupiter. This is a 
result of possession : Her soul must have expres- 
sion; the character of her mind is a constant call 
for expression ; she possesses a mental energy 
which must be satisfied with a high purpose and 
the privilege of service. Both sons have inherited 
this mental energy and its insignia — the open head- 
line. Note what repression would cause to a finely 
organized instrument; this is indicated by a net- 
work of fine lines which certifies that a highly sen- 
sitive instrument has undergone destructive emo- 
tions. A chain of islands above the heart-line 
formed like a girdle of Venus is the marking upon 
her hand of this psychical illness recounted in the 
above. 

A line joins these islands; it crosses the life 
from the Mars Mount at the age of nineteen, possi- 
bly near her date of marriage. Another line joins 
this island formation, leaving the fan and triangle 
pattern upon the life-line which signifies that the 
islands began forming with the event at her 
thirtieth year. 

Dr. Lindsay teaches that all changes are made 
in the deeper self, in the subconscious department 
where are the images that in time form into facts 
and forms. This is why a cheiromancist can read 
the subjective evidence in the lines. Only the im- 
agery can form these hieroglyphics which are out- 
lined upon the palm months and years before the 
objecttive occurrence ; the Soul’s designs must be ex 
pressed unless a process of neutralization begins to 
counter-command and counter act. If the law of 
cause and effect is acknowledged, is realized, the 
fulfillment of pictures will be the desirable and 
ideal. 


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67 


This individual did not neutralize her destruc- 
tive imagery and since her old environment pro- 
vided more destructive thought, and endurance, be- 
cause she lived the destructive idea of sacrifice 
and duty, she objectively lived from her thirtieth 
year that which preceded that date. She had the 
one glow of uplift — a son was born on her thir- 
tieth birthday amidst abuse and blame, unwelcome 
to all but herself; she was comforted by her 
blessed possession. 

At the birth of her second son, she felt a 
new sense of liberation, a pressure freely to take 
privileges that hitherto she had denied her right of 
doing. She desired to throw off the yoke of tyr- 
anny. 

This independence is outlined by her soul which 
knew, which held in prophecy a greater liberation 
for her in the future. She was living in spirit, 
that which she was to live objectively. This mental 
spirit and the son were connected because her soul 
knew that this son’s love and soul expectancy 
would create courage. Telepathy, that wonderful 
silent language of the soul, and that beautiful in- 
visible life that so few can perceive was her first 
expression of her innate ideal. 

From this fan and triangle a cheiromancist, 
with the science of psychology, reads freedom be- 
cause lines spring toward the Mounts of Saturn, 
Apollo, Mercury, Negative Mars and Luna. These 
lines look like an opened transparent fan whose 
ribs point to these mounts while the trangle forms 
a handle of the fan. 

Objective liberation did not come at thirty, but 
in spirit she felt a sense of uplift and a something 
prompted her to strive, to attain to her own ideal 
of life; she made efforts to free herself from heavy 
physical work and to unfold more of her mental 


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powers and not to yield to moments of despair and 
depression. 

A questioner would ask, why has this type of 
woman been placed in a destructive environment? 
An observation of the Postive Mount of Mars tells 
a reader that her childhood had been lived in the 
midst of tyranny. Several lines indicate a very 
large family, and upon her Venus Mount, near the 
thumb, other lines join: the brother and sister lines 
ndicating the added relationships. That their in- 
harmonies mark her hand tells one that she is 
psychically sensitive. One line, which parallels the 
life line and sweeps downward toward her thumb 
attracts another line, but this new line fades away. 
A brother evidently made an unfortunate attach- 
ment because at the end of line which shows a 
brother’s companionship is a square, then a line 
sweeps up from the square toward Mercury. This 
means that this male relative has gone through 
some preservation (the square indicates preserva- 
tion) and eventually became successful in business. 
No doubt this individual was the cause of the pre- 
servation since her hand records the event. 

Near the age of thirty-nine on the life-line is 
the second triangle with the fan-like projections, 
which connects with the islands and indicates a 
new era in her life; that preservation was neces- 
sary is shown by a square formation which is 
shown on the inside of the life-line on Venus and 
which embraces the small triangle. Lines ascend 
to Saturn, Apollo, Mercury and Luna, forming a 
fan a second time upon the life-line. She lived her 
ideals after this occurence because she was forced 
to do it by her own soul. The love for her son and 
his progress demanded self expression. She began 
a mental growth ; she procured the lovely garments 
her nature desired, she began to travel to places 


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that appealed to her, she spent money judiciously 
as shown by her medium set thumb. To these priv- 
ileges her husband was forced to consent. He had 
used tyranny and fear as means to rule her in the 
past, so fear, tyranny accepted his affection and 
planted themselves within her own soul for further 
cultivation. She did not bring her illness to rule 
him — law was fulfilled. 

Numbers 22 :7 ; Departed with the rewards of 
divination in their hands. 

One asks, do her sons mark her hands? Yes. 
A heavy line out of Venus, near the wrist leaves 
the mount and ascends to Apollo. Success is pro- 
claimed but not to detail and time. 

A second marriage is predicted, also opposition. 
No doubt her sons fail to appreciate a consumma- 
tion of marriage. The agitation does not deter the 
union. A widower is the type designated by the 
line. So many cheirognomists claim a forked 
marriage line means a divorce but the writer has 
disproved that reading. The nature of the lines 
and their formation depend upon the standards of 
the individual. This characterization of lines has 
been omitted in all books. 

The lines of this subject’s hands concur in 
success. Happiness is the consequence of causes 
planted in her soul by constructive and ideal pic- 
tures. 


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faiths ftritlj ^Earge auh perfect ffiljumbs 
bat ^atilateb Rutgers 

HE (lata of these hands reveal that a 
woman was a constant expressor of des- 
tructive emotions. She did not control 
herself in small things and therefore 
could not keep her poise when life’s inharmonies 
of a greater nature were presented to her. Pre- 
vailing destructive emotions will create in the ulti- 
mate, that which is disastrous. A young woman 
after eight years of married life remained disap- 
pointed as to motherhood. She- interpreted this as 
a great misfortune despite the fact that her hus- 
band was a tyrant and filled her life with occasion 
for destructive emotions. 

Her anxiety to become a mother was allayed 
through her adoption of a child. Soon after be- 
coming indifferent upon the subject after the eight 
years of grief, the prayers of those years became 
answered. 

At about the fourth month of the embryonic 
life, this prospective mother experienced an emo- 
tional tragedy. In her terrific fear and grief she 
wrung her hands and tightly clasped her interlaced 
fingers before her. The occasion of the shock was 
the stroke of paralysis with which her father was 
stricken to the earth. 

After the usual elapse of time, her child was 
born; its tiny hands were tied together; a cord of 
tissue actually bound them. The skillful surgeon 
separated the hands but at best, the fingers must 
remain mutilated. 

Compensation is a law of the innate phase of 



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71 


the subsconscious and the soul of this child pro- 
vided an instrument which testifies to its benevo- 
lence. 

A writer says that “the thumb individualizes 
the man/’ and in this case soul, nature provided a 
large and splendidly formed thumb. 

These thumbs show a generous nature, a hu- 
man being capable of the largest possibilities and a 
powerful will, a blessed determination to attain to 
those possibilities. The first phalanges are very 
long and reveal a refined, decisive nature. The 
logic space is not equal in length which signifies 
that the Soul, the Creator of the body knew that 
logic and reason would be the least of her needs. 
Her souPs innate trend proved to be that of music ; 
a magnificent voice was to be her outlet of ex- 
pression. 

The palms indicate that she possessed great sen- 
sitiveness. In addition to the finest texture of skin, 
a joined head-line and life line, a life line that 
rises high on an extremely high Jupiter Mount, 
denotes pride and ambition to a superlative de- 
gree; a long Jupiterian finger, the only one she 
posessses, shows the psychologist that mind does 
build into form the instrument that reveals its in- 
nermost self. 

The headline is forked and one line sweeps to 
the Mount of Luna, again revealing to what extent 
discipline, determination, will power would have 
to be her strength. 

Inheriting a musical gift of the highest degree, 
necessitated her studying piano for accompani- 
ment to her glorious voice. Her sensitive nature 
and the humiliating hands forced her to learn 
music from books rather than to present her hands 
to a teacher. 

As a child in school, she had suffered when a 


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request of a teacher demanded obedience by raising 
a hand as an answer. It is a tragedy to hear this 
great, beautiful character tell her humiliations, the 
continual agony of mind through which she lived 
when the average child is carelessly happy; this 
because women have not been taught the potent 
power of imagery and the dynamic power of emo- 
tions. 

With determination and the highest degree of 
will power — the outer choosing department co- 
operating with the innate impulse and will — she 
attained a splendid musical education, became a 
beautiful singer and accompanies herself and pu- 
pils marvelously. 

Law is the only reliable thing in the universe; 
its very dependableness is a blessing and law did 
not change to lessen this individual’s suffering 
though she was not responsible for her cause of her 
sorrow. 

If her parents had become scientifically in- 
formed psychologists they could have given her 
suggestions to allay her supersensitiveness and 
could have neutralized the destructive suggestions 
Avhich brutally frank children and playmates gave 
to her. 

If she had been taught in childhood that the 
soul is the beneficent adjuster in every one’s life 
and that in possessing mutilated fingers, her soul 
would inspire her in ways to the attainment of her 
great and innate art, she would have looked toward 
that innate phase of her soul to direct her course 
rather than preference of the objective will power 
to force the attainment. 

If she had been taught that emotions of grief 
and intense resentment were destructive and made 
her effort more prodigious, she would have turned 
that dynamic, temperamental power into support- 


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ing the art and would have enhanced her singing 
to a marvelous degree. 

Her prolonged, built up, regular habit of 
thought and emotions has had an effect upon her 
finely trained voice; there is in it an element of 
stress, not force, but the stress of anguish. 

After the attainment, the musical life continued 
through effort; this habit had been registered and 
therefore, little enjoyment came through her own 
individual expression; however her greatest peace 
of mind came in the progress of her pupils and 
their ultimate fulfillment of art. 

Knowing this lovely character, the writer has 
had less tolerance for the many who do not attain 
and because so little effort is required ; things 
come too easily to a great majority of people. 
Reading hands psychologically awes the investi- 
gator. The 'soul, that builder within, is a most 
benevolent giver. The greatest of tragedies is its 
efforts to speak, to do, to inspire the conscious- 
mind, whose sense department heedlessly lives 
silently ignoring the call, except when dire results 
of intemperance or tragedies make the individual 
pause, and consider. This is particularly true of 
the musician — his art is predominantly psychical 
and the world of musicians is not psychologically 
trained. 

Psalms 18:20. The Lord rewarded me accord- 
ing to my rightness ; according to the cleanness of 
my hands hath he recompensed me. 

Corinthians 12 :21. The eye cannot say unto the 
hand, I have no need of thee. 

Isaiah 14 :2. In the shadow of his hand hath he 
hid me. 






NO THUMBS; MISSHAPED FINGERS. 






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JCa Htjmttbs : ^te-^ijapeh Jjmgcrs 



fortune : 


YOUNG man who has hands with no 
thumbs and the fingers very sadly mis- 
shapened related reluctantly the story 
as far as he knew concerning his mis- 


He had made it a point to inquire from all 
angles and this investigation had proved that in 
no case was there a correspondence in his line of 
ancestry. 

During his childhood he had the firm realiza- 
tion that he was unable to handle or play cards. He 
was conscious of a predisposition to play but he 
was likewise convinced that he could not play 
cards. This disassociation was authoritatively ex- 
plained to him. 

His father was an immutable, incessant card- 
player or gambler; this mania took him from his 
home at night, had caused his wife years of suffer- 
ing. 

Finally one night she prayed, in a burning rage 
of anger and resentment that the next baby would 
be born with an absolute inability to hold cards, 
to play cards. 

This subect of the mutilated hands was then in 
the embryonic exictence and became the fulfill- 
ment of her prayers. Prayer is the design of the 
conscious mind and is taken up and built into form 
by the Soul — the Builder. 

The soul of the mother supplied her babe with 
nutriment poisoned by her passion of anger and 
the imagery, the mind phase, through the laws of 
telepliathy, caused the child’s soul to accept the 
pattern. 

The young man called his mal-formation — a 



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freak of nature and rested calmly in that thought 
so his listener did not explain the law and the 
potency of imagery which had been dynamically 
lived and had had its resultant fulfillment ex- 
pressed in imperfect hands and the inability to 
handle cards. The listener did not want the sub- 
ject to become embittered toward his mother. 

She, like the son, thought the cause of this ab- 
normality lay in the father’s sin. 

A psychologist of the hand would trace back 
further for destructive emotions, surrendered to by 
the family and progenitors. 

The mother hated cards which was accentuated 
by her theology and this hatred, because of its in- 
tensity, was a dynamic force to compel its fulfill- 
ment in a personification. Hatred of anything 
designates an emotional picturing. One destruc- 
tive emotion will cause other destructive emotions 
and from hatred, she commenced to express anger, 
resentment, then supportance and sacrifice fol- 
lowed, until out of the many inharmonies nature — 
Soul was compelled to produce abnormality. 

The very long finger tips, the first phalanges, 
denote that high ideals were held in thought by 
some of the young man’s ancestors; the mental- 
line shows that the mind powers were above the 
average; the heart-line on the left hand certifies 
the sorrow through which the mother lived. When 
will women grow wise enough to cease living a 
tolerant silence and thus force the picture of re- 
pression upon their progeny, thinking that they 
are mastering their suffering by endurance rather 
than cultivating courage and cheer — taking the 
radical steps which a radically wrong case like this 
warranted. 

Repression is an absolute impossibility; it 


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forces expression into other channels and their 
fulfillment. 

Emotions should be neutralized by searching 
for some compensating item, thus assisting the 
soul in its innate trend to unfold harmonies and 
defeat the trend of inharmony. 

This mother, no doubt, had to live with her 
husband because of her children and her inability 
to make a living but her mental attitude of hatred 
separated them more each day that they lived 
If she had turned her soul force, the thought and 
prayer toward her innate department of soul, had 
aspired for inspiration to deal constructively with 
her husband, a plan might have been revealed; if 
in event of his persistence in his crime of gambling 
and her failure to reach him from reconstruction 
her endeavor and aspiration would have provided 
harmony for herself and children. Her course of 
hatred had ruinous results for all involved. 

The young man’s desires, yet with the inability 
to express may increase and as he pictures his 
deplorable hands and the unfulfilled desires he 
might express himself in some destructive manner 
wherein he possesses organs with which to express. 

Observe the left hand photograph and note the 
length and depth of the head-line upon this the 
better formed hand. The heart-line slants down- 
ward toward the Mount of Mars, also has descend- 
ing lines under Apollo, and added to a heavy girdle 
of Venus shows the mother’s hysterical trend of 
emotion as well as this subject’s inheritance of an 
extremely nervous temperament. 

A life-line rises from the Jupiter finger and 
courses down the hand near where the thumb 
should be. The life-line is very short. The right 
hand is more disfigured: Nature does not use 
chance in expressing her potencies. The right hand 


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is the fulfillment of pictures. Though he could 
have been born with both hands thumbless and not 
ill-shaped, the picture of destruction in the soul 
of the child, if not neutralized would continue per- 
petuating more inharmony and disfigurement. The 
observer can see, from the heavy heart line that 
this subject is emotional and has a nervous tem- 
perament — that the mental-line does not equal 
that of the left. A signification that the mental 
equipment has not been fulfilled, has not been given 
modes of expression. 

When the United States asked for her young 
men and their service, this young man’s great de- 
sire to serve caused him to enlist. Finally, he was 
given a place to serve in the hospital corps. He 
could lift a stretcher. He still gains construction 
out of his constructive desires and aspirations but 
destruction from his repressed desires. The moth- 
er’s prayers were answered but the answer deprives 
him of expressing his musical talents and the 
ordinary service for which God — the innate depart- 
ment of soul— constructed our hands. 

Exodus 13 :16. And it shall be for a token upon 
thine hand. 

Exodus 13 :9. And it shall be for a sign unto 
thee upon thine hand. 





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Jtranit fmtlj fingers 

IIS print was sent to the writer from a 
hand specialist who wrote that she was 
sending a hand-print which possessed 
two thumbs. 

The writer received this print and 
seeing instantly one thumb but two Jupiterian 
fingers gave the reading but remained anxious to 
receive the promised two thumbed print. 

Not until a corroboration was returned of the 
reading did the fact become clear that it was a mis- 
taken interpretation. 

The following was given without any data ex- 
cepting the print as the observer can see in the 
book. 

Psalms 119 :109 : My soul is continually in my 
hand. 

Quoted from writer’s letter to hand specialist. 
“From my rapid observations, I am going to relate 
the conclusions and since I am not in personal 
contact with this man I wish you to write me cor- 
rections. 

This man is a semi-blond, has large shoulders, 
is heavy in the upper part of the trunk, is of 
medium height — five feet, nine inches. He has 
had good and common ancestry where poverty has 
existed but in which quarreling between parents 
has been incessant; also had contentious grand- 
parents. Each one of the household attempted to 
make the other change his viewpoint in the details 
of life. Aggressiveness is plainly the strongest 
trait in this individual and add to that an ambi- 
tion to rule, expressed in the possession of two 
Jupiterian fingers with two perfect apices, in- 
creased by the possession of large Mounts of Mars, 
negative and positive, which show that he has the 



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moral courage to carry out his ideas of leadership, 
rulership to fulfillment. 

He does not lack affection for the lines, head 
and heart do not lay high enough up on the Mount 
to make him intellectually cold. His mental pow- 
ers are good and equip him with material for 
reaching high in the army life. 

He will rise but by. his own endeavors. 

He is naturally shrewd but that trait supports 
his supreme ambition to lead. He has a love for 
beauty, for splendid looking equipments, for high 
class surroundings which adds to the possession 
of leadership. There is no yielding of any char- 
acteristic that defers his progress to rule, to attain 
his Jupiterian ambition. 

He has been affected by the mental tempests 
of his associates in early life but has grown in- 
different and calmed himself much as he has grown 
older. 

As a result, he does not care for superficial 
excitement nor does he make a lot of changes in 
his occupations or avocations. He is consecrated 
to one ambition. 

I cannot see that the will is very strong in his 
general perigrinations but logic and will of a 
modest degree added to the supreme strength of 
Jupiter traits will assist him. 

Independence of thought is marked, as well as 
freedom of action, no binding of circumstances 
indicated in finger-spacings, determine a degree of 
success in rulership.” 

The one correction made by the specialist was 
concerning the author’s misinterpreting the love of 
change or desire to travel. 

All spatulate palms indicate a nervous energy, 
a desire to broaden and change the environment 
but it does not indicate changes in occupations nor 


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85 


versatile expression. Two months later, this 
youth’s picture, with hand prints and foot prints, 
with the heading: “Soldier With 12 Fingers and 
Toes,” was in the newspaper. 

The following is a printed letter which tells the 
reader to what extent headings can be given from 
a print, only. 

“I was born within the shadow of one of the 
largest barracks in the world, in London, England. 
My ambition has always been to be a soldier. T 
love the life and its military ways. That was 
my favorite game when I was a kid. Before I was 
12 years old I joined the Boys’ Brigade and have 
been playing soldier all my life. Now I have the 
real thing. I was made a corporal before I was 
21 and am working hard for the next "step on the 
ladder. I have crossed the Atlantic three times 
and expect Uncle Sam will send me over again 
soon. I have been private, cook, mechanic, black- 
smith, and corporal since I enlisted. Don’t you 
think I have considerable experience for a young 
fellow just a few weeks over 21?” 

Ezra 7 :25. After the wisdom of thy God which 
is in thine hand. 

Psalms 26 :10. In whose hands is mischief and 
their right hand is full of bribes. 

Revelations 20 :4. Neither had received his 
mark upon their foreheads or in their hands. 

Psalms 7 :3. If there be iniquity in mine hands. 


86 Psychology of the Hand 

fat 

O a casual observer, these prints marked 
“Pat” show a coarse hand. The coarse 
texture of the skin indicates that Nature 
has gloved a stiff and hard, unyielding 
hand in its rightful covering; this inflexibility is 
shown by the hand not yielding to the paper under 
strong pressure, thus preventing clear line-impres- 
sions. Add to the prints a knowledge that the 
hands are covered with stiff, coarse hair, that the 
palms are very heavy and thick, that the color 
is red and violent in appearance, one knows that 
this subject lacks refinement. 

A weak heart action and a poor circulation are 
indicated by small and ill formed nails with the 
absence of moons. This certifies that the subject 
would not eliminate the poisons, created by his 
violent emotions which prevail in his life. His 
body would therefore be so impaired that he could 
not think normally. 

The reader must observe carefully the differ- 
ence in the two prints, the left and right : 

The left hand is more normal in the setting 
of Mercury, in the length of Mercury and the well 
placed apices of all fingers. Both hands have 
conic tips, indicating that the true trend of the 
individual is toward an appreciation of the beauti- 
ful and lovely. The long first phalanges indicate 
that he inherited an idealistic nature. His im- 
pulsive nature could be easily swayed by music and 
by beautiful colors. With these observations, it 
proves that the man came into this world with 
a soul full of pictures ; some of those pictures lived 
by his ancestors had taken form constructively and 
others destructively. Some predecessors had been 
musically inclined, were sensitive to beauty in 




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color, form and tone ; that the impulses were denied 
expressions and nature or soul consequently sent 
its force into destructive expressions. 

Dr. Lindsay teaches that every soul has an 
innate trend of expression and if the life is de- 
feated in expressing that innate trend, it must 
substitute the acquired artificial for the innate. 
This was the result of this subject’s ancestors as 
shown by the fate of his father, related in this 
analogue. 

The impulsive nature was an inheritance and 
any picture held in the sub-conscious of a destruc- 
tive quality forced them into hasty and violent 
quarrels and deeds; the markings on the Positve 
Mars of the left hand reveal the destructive home 
life and the subjects early environment. The 
thumbs are small and indicate that the subject is 
ruled by his emotional nature and impulses. 

The thumbs on both hands are thick and heavy 
and set high and close to the hands. This is an 
insignia that this subject, as well as his ancestors, 
is secretive, is stingy, is suspicious; the joints are 
stiff which tells that he cannot yield to another’s 
viewpoint in any degree, nor will he adjust him- 
self to any circumstances or environment. The 
short will phalanx predicates that he has no will 
power of a high quality. No mental power of per- 
sistence. The short thumb and large Mount of 
Mars shows that his violent temper with his un- 
yielding nature would cause him to use brute force 
if he were opposed. He has a lack of reason and 
power of analysis, revealed by the thick, smooth 
fingers and a poor thin head line as well as a short 
second phalanx in the thumb. The head line is 
superficial in comparison with the heart and life 
lines. The fingers are short, another indication 
of the impulsive nature and when added to an over 


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developed Mount of Mars, an indicator of a fight- 
ing nature, since lie has all indications of a coarse 
nature, his impulses would tend to be low and 
sensuous. Since he is secretive, stingy and sus- 
picious, add another unfortunate trait and an in- 
heritance which increased as he grew older : Both 
hands have a head line which rises on Pos. Mars 
which certifies a mind that is over-timid and over- 
cautious. His mother no doubt lived under in- 
timidation and threat and tliis youth must have left 
his home before he was fifteen, indicated by a line 
from Pos. Mars mounting Saturn. Since he had 
no independence and was not a leader, shown by 
a short Jupiterian finger, his self assertion would 
have to be in the dark or under-handed. 

Here the innate department of soul was wise 
in lessening this subject’s power of rulership or 
leadership. He cannot control others. Apollo is 
longer than Jupiter and indicates that he could 
co-operate if it happened to suit his tastes to do 
so. He grew more dependent upon co-operation 
as time passed, shown by the right hand which 
grew weaker in its possession of length on the 
Jupiterian finger. The apex of Apollo in the right 
hand is badly placed; it draws toward Saturn 
which is not the case in the left hand. This is thus 
marked because the gloomy, melancholy, morose 
tendency was permitted expression. Saturn is the 
straightest finger, and shows the best placed apices 
on both hands. As a youth, he had some days of 
joy, some ideas of a happy quality but gradually 
his tendency to brood overcame the innate trend 
of his soul and annihilated its expression. 

Observe that Mercury of the left hand exceeds 
that of the right — another defeat thus marked. 
As a youth, he was quick in his mind, he was agile 
in his body, but gradually he lost both possessions. 


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His keen wit, his ability to read liis fellow man 
gave way to shrewd suspicion, shown by Mercury 
losing its normal position on the hand. The apex 
is misplaced and draws like Apollo toward Saturn. 
The placement of Saturn denotes that a morose 
disposition rules the life, he becomes more un- 
charitable ,more full of hate for his fellow man. 

The thickness of the fingers at the base show a 
very selfish nature. He has no independence of 
thought, no freedom of the slighest in his environ- 
ment and very little independence in action, so 
registered by the spaces or lack of spaces between 
the fingers. His distrust of mankind causes him to 
injure himself more than he does others. 

His lessened constructive powers and defeats 
indicate that as he grew older, some habit, some 
destructive tendency, deadened his mind. The 
loss of adroitness, of mind power, shown in a short- 
ened Mercury finger indicate drunkenness which is 
corroborated in via Lascivia line on the left hand. 
He no doubt inherited a taste for liquor. 

Since he is sensitive to persons and his sur- 
roundings shown in the joined head and life lines, 
a reader should take into consideration the ex- 
tremely large Luna mounts which are indicative 
of a great imagination. Add to this a sloping head 
line on both hands, and one has the key to the 
cause of defeat. 

On the left hand the head line goes down across 
the Luna Mount into the wrist; this indicates that 
his father committed suicide. Across the left hand 
are eight heavy lines from Postive Mars and Venus 
to the mounts of Apollo and the heart .line ; cross 
lines indicate worries and obstacles and in many 
instances indicate people who have brought the 
sorrow. These*, markings show that gambling 
brought sorrows to his parents. Heavy lines on 


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the Mercury Mount on the left hand adds to this 
interpretation. Heavy lines from Mercury join 
the cross lines at the heart line. No destiny line, 
nor Sun line, the lines of attainment, reach their 
mounts — Saturn and Apollo — so a reader knows 
that the ancestors experienced no success. This 
conclusion is substantiated by an Apollo line on 
the left hand tied up with the life line, crossed 
and criss-crossed, then broken, and stopped by the 
head line then broken and stopped again by the 
heart line. The beginning of the Apollo line is 
entangled with the via Lascivia line which tells 
of vice, gambling being lived, to only end in failure 
and disgrace. 

In the right hand the Destiny line proves out 
the prophecy held in the left hand. The youth’s 
destiny or subconscious pictures which were not 
neutralized fatally sent him on his journey of life 
to express his home influence and its terrible in- 
harmonies. The Destiny line on the right hand is 
crooked and goes up the hand telling of a crooked, 
dishonest career. It stops at the heart line presag- 
ing that the emotional, sensuous nature causes 
defeat to even the fulfillment of a crooked career. 

This subject’s emotional nature made him sus- 
ceptible to the opposite sex; this is shown by a 
large Mount of Venus and a low placed heart line, 
which corroborates the previous statement that the 
thumb shows lack of will which comes with a good 
mind, that his persistence is guided by his emotions 
and that his emotions are coarse and sensuous. 

At 22 years of age, a woman came into his life 
and brought him disgrace and caused a scandal. 
This is shown in a heavy line from Venus which 
goes across the life line, the head line, the heart 
line and Mount of Apollo, forming an island and 
cutting up into the finger. This affair was followed 


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by others of the same destructive nature. 

The entire Mount of Luna and negative Mars 
Mount are lined with crooked lines and dots, indi- 
cating that disease racks the system and defeats 
the action of the mind. The head line ends dis- 
asterously in the Plain of Mars. It is tasseled 
and ended by a cross line. 

He does not commit suicide, fear restrains this 
tendency but he comes to old age with a weakened 
mind. He grows more stupid in crime and is 
retained in a place where he can harm no one. 

The above analysis was returned to the investi- 
gator who procured the prints for the writer, who 
requested to ascertain facts concerning the subject. 

At the time of taking these prints, this subject 
had engaged the sympathies of the investigator to 
a large extent but after a perusal of the analysis 
she decided to use caution in her dealings with 
him; she had hired him as janitor of her large 
apartment house. 

She frankly admitted that she felt that the 
analysis of her janitor’s character was too severe. 

Two weeks later she was forced to recall the 
writer’s warnings and discussions on emotions. 
Psychologists know that passions of all kinds come 
in tides, in gushes and bursts, and continue at great 
duration but are never uniform; emotions are a 
succession of rises and falls. One day the janitor 
became violent toward everyone and her safety lay 
in a call to the police force. 

Later the suicide of his father was corroborated. 
The writer had concluded that the inheritance of 
negro blood explained the cause of many strong 
emotions but the investigator could not corroborate 
this conviction. 


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